Engineers

Orb Weaver

Hummingbird Talks with Buck

Coconut Palm Canopy

Nick Neddo, 2017, ink from charred coconut shells

Summer

Nick Neddo, 2015, willow charcoal

Spring

Nick Neddo, 2015, willow charcoal

Apprentice

Nick Neddo, 2017, willow bark ink painting

Wild-crafted Media

The drawings and paintings represented in this body of work were all made by hand, from raw materials that I gathered from the wild landscape. I make my pens from feathers and reeds; my inks from a wide variety of fruits, fungi, plants, shrubs and trees; my paint brushes from various plant fibers, animal fur and whiskers; my charcoal from vines and trees; my paint from stones; my crayons from beeswax and rocks.

Although I am making art the hard way, this approach is satisfying beyond what I could have anticipated.